Western Standard - Chaos after Germans vote to move right

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00:00:30.000 Welcome, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:00:54.020 We're going to change things up a little bit today.

00:00:56.560 Canada is going through a federal election right now, but just weeks ago, Germany had a federal

00:01:04.540 election. And yeah, regular viewers will know that I pay a bit more attention to German politics than

00:01:11.780 the average Albertan, but it's very important. What's happening in Europe is much of what is

00:01:18.360 happening here in Canada right now, and in some cases, what we can expect to happen, because they

00:01:23.560 further down the road on some of these fronts in terms of destroying rational energy policy in terms

00:01:30.160 of mass migration and what that's doing to the democratic demographics of Western and Central

00:01:40.080 European countries. It's very important. So I'm going to ask you to follow along with me and

00:01:45.460 unplug from the Canadian election for just a few minutes because I've got a really interesting

00:01:49.420 guest with us today we're going to have on christine anderson now she's the member of 0.96

00:01:54.480 a member of the european parliament uh with the afd the alternative for germany or alternative

00:02:01.880 for deutschland uh she is from hesse hessa which for those of you who don't know is the province

00:02:08.540 or lander in germany that encompasses frankfurt uh beautiful city i'm sure most of you have

00:02:13.560 probably just stopped at the airport but you should get out and stretch your legs from time

00:02:16.380 time when you're there um so uh we're gonna bring in her in right now uh guten abend and uh 1.00

00:02:23.820 willkommen frau anderson uh via the uh western standard uh seitung yeah um thanks for having me

00:02:33.900 we're very glad to have you um so uh you've actually got some background with canada we're

00:02:39.180 We're going to get to there in a bit.

00:02:41.140 We're going to work our way through.

00:02:43.400 So Germans just had a federal election or Bund to elect a new Bundestag, essentially the German version of the House of Commons.

00:02:58.600 And the AFD was pretty much unanimously considered the big winner.

00:03:04.900 To a lesser extent, the Union, which is the kind of sister parties of the CDU, CSU, and maybe even D-Linka a bit, who significantly increased their vote share.

00:03:15.700 That's the, for lack of a better term, the Communist Party.

00:03:21.140 Yeah.

00:03:21.780 You know, I don't want to name call because your party gets name called as well, but I think they're pretty, they're very openly Marxist party.

00:03:27.240 They're quite unashamed of it.

00:03:30.640 Germans voted significantly to the right.

00:03:34.060 one of the biggest wins of the right in the history of the Federal Republic, I think it's

00:03:41.300 very fair to say. First place was the, what's generally described as the traditional Conservative

00:03:46.880 Party, and the CDU, CSU, for most of its history, I think, would fairly be described as that.

00:03:52.840 It moved very significantly to the left, particularly under Angela Merkel's chancellorship,

00:03:58.640 which opened up space among more traditional Conservatives for the AFD. AFD is a new party

00:04:03.700 that came out of the Eurozone debt crisis and then evolved, taking on the mass migration issues

00:04:09.240 when Angela Merkel threw open the borders to Germany and to Europe.

00:04:14.040 CDU came in first here. Let's actually put up the election results graphic here,

00:04:18.520 just so people get a sense here. Let's put that up, John.

00:04:21.700 So you'll see there the first place party is the CDU or union, which is the ever so barely

00:04:29.540 conservative party, but still has, I think, a lot of residual support from its tradition of being a

00:04:34.900 conservative party in Germany. Second place was the AfD Alternative for Deutschland, which is a

00:04:42.180 more robustly conservative party. It's made up of libertarians, conservatives, nationalists. It's

00:04:49.260 a mix of things, as most parties are. And for the first time in the history of the Federal

00:04:55.760 republic of germany the uh the social democrats the spd fell to third place uh now conservative

00:05:04.960 uh germans voted for a significant turn to the right the big issue i think it's fair to say

00:05:09.920 christine was uh was migration people wanted very decisive action on migration there were

00:05:16.400 an endless stream of terrorist terrorist attacks in uh in in germany even during the election

00:05:23.360 campaign itself. It was the issue that people were voting for. But there's a weird, unwritten,

00:05:34.260 unofficial rule in Germany called the Braunmauer. It translates roughly as firewall, meaning to

00:05:42.700 keep the so-called, I'm putting this in quotes, far right out of any governing coalition or even

00:05:49.060 relying on its votes to pass a bill or a motion or anything. We'll get into how fair or appropriate

00:05:55.220 the label of far right is in a little bit here. But this means that even though Germans voted for

00:06:01.460 an ostensibly center-right conservative party and a further right conservative party, for lack of

00:06:08.880 better term, a clear majority of Germans voted for that, and they have a clear majority in the

00:06:12.960 Bundestag, they're not going to actually get that, even though it's a clear majority of seats. They're

00:06:16.860 going to get the Union barely center-right party with the SPD Social Democrats, a center-left-to-left

00:06:25.960 party. What is this doing in Germany when Germans vote very clearly, decisively for a very big change

00:06:35.420 in direction and not much seems to actually be changing? Well, yeah, that's just the problem.

00:06:42.300 So most of the voters in Germany, they feel completely betrayed because looking at the election results, the majority of the German people actually voted for a blue and black coalition, meaning the Christian Democrats and my party, the AFD.

00:07:01.200 But they're not getting that.

00:07:02.460 And so it's not only the biggest betrayal of the German voters, it's also the fastest betrayal.

00:07:11.540 So not 24 hours after the results had come in, the president of the Christian Democrats, he already kind of backstabbed what he kind of went back on what he had promised, that he would significantly reduce mass migration, which actually is an invasion at this point, by promising that he would close the borders.

00:07:38.580 And like I said, 24 hours after the results had come in, he was, you know, standing there was like, well, no one ever spoke of closing up the borders, right?

00:07:49.600 So that was like the first betrayal.

00:07:52.360 And migration, it really is the big issue within Germany right now.

00:07:57.200 We already mentioned all of the terror attacks we are having, but it's not just, you know, the big, huge ones.

00:08:04.180 We're talking about there's two brutal gang rapes every single day in Germany, two.

00:08:13.780 And this is not, then we're not talking about the rapes that only have one perpetrator, right?

00:08:19.000 So two brutal gang rapes every single day in Germany.

00:08:22.340 Plus we have like these random knife attacks and they're no longer happening on a daily basis.

00:08:29.060 They're happening on an hourly basis.

00:08:31.820 So just anywhere in Germany, you know, if you're at the wrong spot at the wrong time, you might fall victim to some, you know, well, the majority, they will claim to have, you know, psychological problems.

00:08:45.480 So you fall victim to just a random knife attack.

00:08:49.140 So this is going on.

00:08:50.280 So migration really was a big issue.

00:08:52.620 And he betrayed the people, you know, by now saying, well, no one ever spoke of closing the borders.

00:08:58.840 The second thing they did, which was even more despicable, is the fact so now all of a sudden they realized after that visit of Zelensky in the White House and that Donald Trump, how he was not BSing around with Zelensky and pretty much, you know, told everyone, look, you either, you know, get to the table and you negotiate a peace deal or there isn't going to be any support from the U.S. anymore.

00:09:26.660 So now all of a sudden they started realizing here, oh, my God, you know, we are no longer able to defend ourselves.

00:09:33.120 Yeah. Why are you not able to? Why are we no longer able to defend ourselves?

00:09:36.820 Very simple. In the last decades, any young man who had, you know, any aspiration of joining the army, whether it be in a setting where it's mandatory, where I have to do a certain amount of service, a certain amount of time or voluntary.

00:09:52.240 I mean, they were stigmatized.

00:09:54.660 They were called names like murderers and, you know, all of this going on.

00:09:59.220 So it was like, yeah, defense, self-defense of our nations that was frowned upon.

00:10:06.760 So now we are in this situation.

00:10:08.380 Now they're realizing, oh, shoot, Donald Trump is no longer footing the bill,

00:10:12.380 or the American people, I should say, might no longer foot the bill for our defense.

00:10:17.420 So now we have to do something, right?

00:10:19.620 So and then they realized that the newly elected Bundestag, if they were to come up with an amount to, you know, prop up our defense spending, they can't because the Constitution prohibits that right now.

00:10:37.280 They pulled in the ceiling as how deep Germany can go into additional debt.

00:10:43.440 So and they figured this is not going to work out.

00:10:46.120 So, but then looking at, well, we need to change the constitution, but then they realized with a newly elected Bundestag, they wouldn't have the required two-third majority.

00:10:57.240 And so just, if I understand what happened is, before the new Bundestag is sworn in, there's a lame duck Bundestag, and it's not really supposed to do anything other than essentially minding the shop.

00:11:09.520 But in an unprecedented way, they changed the constitution before the new Bundestag is sworn in post-election.

00:11:16.640 That's what happened, right?

00:11:18.720 Right. So the new Bundestag was already elected, but it hadn't been summoned yet.

00:11:24.840 So they decided to summon the old Bundestag, who had clearly not been elected in the way it is composed,

00:11:34.100 and they changed the constitution um so they can have additional debt uh up to

00:11:43.140 wait for it 1.5 trillion euros yeah this is only for germany right and uh and frederick um

00:11:56.200 merits the uh presumed next chancellor a very almost certainly next chancellor he ran against

00:12:02.340 that literally days earlier right like he was against that in his own election and then yeah

00:12:07.540 throughout democracy to do it with the left-wing parties that was one of his major uh campaigning

00:12:13.860 point right we need to reduce the debt the debt and the ceiling we pulled in uh so we can't have

00:12:19.460 any more additional debt he he campaigned on that he was gonna not touch it but here we are right

00:12:26.820 and then happened with like a week after uh the election results came in so yeah the german people 0.97

00:12:34.900 they feel betrayed and um so but what this idiot also did and i'm specifically speaking about 0.99

00:12:43.220 friedrich mertz and yes i'm calling him a complete idiot um what he also did during campaigning he 0.99

00:12:50.180 made it very clear to everyone that that is actually one of the promises he kept um he will 0.97

00:12:57.300 not even speak to my party no matter what the outcome he will not speak to us so i want to talk

00:13:07.700 he he told the social democrats and the green party that look you know uh i'm pretty much at

00:13:15.700 your mercy you can you know demand whatever you want from me and i will have to do it because i

00:13:22.340 want to become chancellor and that's what they did that's exactly what they did so that's what i want

00:13:27.620 to ask about here with the uh the brown mawa the firewall uh there were some cracks that it's not

00:13:35.060 broken but there were some cracks in the firewall uh right before the election on some migration

00:13:40.420 reform bills where merits was trying to take a uh more anti-mass migration pose which very clearly

00:13:48.280 seems to be for electoral purposes now since he's gone back on it immediately but he put forward a

00:13:53.340 bill uh limiting mass migration uh you know at least steps in the right direction not far enough

00:13:59.740 but steps in the right direction uh the spd and the other left parties were obviously against it

00:14:07.040 uh afd was willing to support it the bundestag and he he passed it at least one of the two

00:14:14.960 i believe yes uh with support of the afd and that was considered scandalous um and he oh yeah but

00:14:21.680 he was willing to do it um yes so if i want you to open the election right that was yeah right

00:14:27.680 right before the election but he said he would never form a coalition government with the afd

00:14:31.680 but that that was still a crack in the in the firewall because even that was against the rule

00:14:36.160 the so-called rules of it right um so what happened here was um so since he was campaigning

00:14:41.720 right and since he wanted to become chancellor and since he needed to come in first in that

00:14:46.360 election that's what he actually did he proposed to the Bundestag um to two items um dealing with

00:14:54.240 restricting uh immigration and uh so the first one uh actually passed in the Bundestag right

00:15:02.820 and um so it was like all hell broke loose right there was talks about he had opened the the gate

00:15:09.620 to hell because he accepted our votes you know to pass this this piece of it wasn't the legislation 0.73

00:15:16.580 it was some other kind of piece uh dealing with that um so he opened the the the gates to hell

00:15:23.940 now and you know we're just gonna i don't know disappear from the planet he was called nazi

00:15:30.420 and then all of a sudden there was this astroturfing protesting going on again right and

00:15:36.020 thousands and thousands of people taking the streets now not only protesting afd they were

00:15:42.500 protesting the christian democrats because they had dared to even a table something like this in

00:15:48.340 the bundestag and uh so they they um uh blockaded there was a placate in front of the headquarters

00:15:56.340 of that party uh they were literally hunting uh politicians from the christian democrats down

00:16:02.260 right and then he cracked again right it was like well yeah no we didn't quite mean it like that

00:16:08.180 so then when the legislation was actually supposed to to uh get voted on in the bundestag

00:16:14.420 he cracked right so and that that was not passed there were a lot of um members of the christian

00:16:20.100 democrats that didn't even vote for their own proposal just so it wouldn't pass right so but

00:16:25.940 that like i said that was right before the election right so and people were like oh well he's saying

00:16:31.860 the right stuff now he's doing the right stuff now yeah let's all vote for him let's all vote for him

00:16:37.060 right so we tried to tell the people this he's just putting on a show you will see right after

00:16:43.540 the the election he is not going to remember any of that and that's what we're seeing so i want to

00:16:50.420 I'm going to switch gears a bit back to the election results itself.

00:16:54.080 We're going to put up a map of the election results.

00:16:58.380 Now, the map you see is not a map from 1982 showing West Germany, the Federal Republic, and East Germany, the GDR.

00:17:10.720 That is the election map from just a few weeks ago.

00:17:14.320 uh you'll see everyone can see on the map uh the black is the the union the again nominally

00:17:22.260 conservative party dominating west germany uh the former uh well former smaller parts of the

00:17:29.520 federal republic and in the blue is the afd uh completely dominating in the former uh eastern

00:17:36.980 provinces of uh of germany of the former communist east uh and you see a tiny few specks of red for

00:17:44.280 the Social Democrats, SPD, and Green for the Green Party. There's a pretty stark geographical

00:17:52.900 divide. You know, we often see, not uniformly, but often in the former communist countries of

00:18:01.660 Europe, they're voting for more nationalist, more right-leaning parties in the former communist

00:18:09.620 areas uh and and we're seeing that even within germany itself almost an internal border there

00:18:15.600 um and there's also a huge generational divide young people particularly young men voted afd

00:18:24.600 uh did very well with young women as well although young women uh skewed to die linke the former 0.91

00:18:30.980 communist party so that's so there's kind of two big divides i i was observing in in the breakdown

00:18:37.400 of the German election I'd like you to speak to. One is the East-West divide, CDU-AFD, and

00:18:45.000 actually three divides. Generationally, young people voting AFD, older people voting

00:18:52.360 for union and the leftist parties, and among young men and young women, young men skewing AFD,

00:18:59.560 young women skewing Die Linke, which translates literally as the left. Those are kind of the three 0.72

00:19:06.200 big divides i have i've observed from the election results do you maybe want to speak to those three

00:19:11.880 yeah so um just looking at the map right you clearly see what the majority of the people

00:19:17.560 voted for they voted for a coalition between the christian democrats and the and the afd

00:19:23.960 uh what they're getting however is uh yet again green and left policy that's what they're getting

00:19:32.280 So, like I said, big betrayal on that divide that you were touched upon.

00:19:39.120 There is there as far as the divide between East and West is concerned, there is a very good reason for that. 1.00

00:19:45.480 So in the eastern German parts of Germany, the former GDR, they have lived through communism.

00:19:56.220 They have lived through totalitarianism and they recognize the signs.

00:20:01.480 They have they're very sensitive to these censorship that's going on and how things are framed in the media.

00:20:10.460 They learned how to read a newspaper. It's not important what the newspaper says.

00:20:15.960 The more important part is what doesn't it say? And, you know, how do you need to read to be able to read between the lines?

00:20:22.960 So they are recognizing all of that. And what they are seeing is it bears all of the hallmarks of the Soviet totalitarianism that they lived under in the communist regime. Right. Whereas in the West, I usually I mean, I was born and raised in Western Germany myself, but I usually refer to us.

00:20:44.560 we are just spoiled rotten brats we no longer put any value on freedom democracy and the rule of law

00:20:52.800 for some reason um we we seem to have forgotten that it wasn't that one fine day that the sky

00:21:00.720 opened up and boom you know it fell down and there it was no it had to be fought for our fathers and

00:21:06.560 forefathers had to wrestle it from the former elites and they literally spilled their blood

00:21:12.640 But over making sure that we, as their children and children's children, would enjoy freedom, democracy and the rule of law.

00:21:21.600 So and now we're just sitting here and we are so utterly afraid of being called right wing extremists, you know, Nazis, whatever, that we would not even dare to act in our best interest on our, you know, on our behalf.

00:21:40.500 Just kind of like how they went down in Great Britain with the gang rapes, right?

00:21:47.620 The authorities knew that there were Pakistani men, you know, by the hundreds, I don't know,

00:21:54.260 raping thousands and thousands of British girls. 0.90

00:21:57.200 But no one said anything because they were afraid of being called racist.

00:22:01.740 So this is how this kind of works.

00:22:03.520 But nevertheless, the German people, they actually voted for a right conservative policy, but they're not getting that.

00:22:12.980 So as far as the divide, the younger people is concerned.

00:22:18.300 That is was actually kind of surprising.

00:22:21.480 I will have to admit that considering they all went through school.

00:22:25.620 Right. The indoctrination going on, they're just the same as it is in Canada or the United States or anywhere else in the world.

00:22:31.160 in the Western democracies specifically.

00:22:35.140 So that was kind of surprising.

00:22:37.960 But the thing is this, these young people, 0.67

00:22:41.600 they see what the policies of the last decade

00:22:46.100 have done to our homeland. 0.62

00:22:49.480 They're seeing it in school every day.

00:22:52.560 There is schools where the German students

00:22:56.000 are in a minority, especially when you look

00:22:59.580 at the the under eight year olds we are in a minority already and they're seeing that they're

00:23:05.840 seeing all of the problems it brings they're being bullied they're being beaten up they're

00:23:11.160 whatever you know so they're seeing this and they don't want this they do not and that's why they

00:23:18.020 voted the way they did the the the funny thing about this is so it's actually hilarious um the

00:23:25.380 The left and the green, for years, they've been working on lowering their voting age to 16 because they figured, you know, they will vote for the left and the green party.

00:23:38.920 Right. So and they actually did lower the voting age for the EU elections.

00:23:43.860 So for the EU elections, that did not go well, the 16 year olds, you know, get to vote.

00:23:48.480 And ever since we had the EU elections and this trend was already visible, right, that we I mean, in Germany, there is parts where we actually came in first with a 16 to 17, 16 and 17 year olds and the younger, the younger people.

00:24:04.280 So guess what? There is no talk about lowering the vote voting age anymore.

00:24:09.200 They drop that as fast as they could. They don't even mention that anymore.

00:24:14.340 Well, they're all for democracy when the people are voting for them.

00:24:17.820 Exactly.

00:24:18.880 So I want to come to touch on some of the things you were talking about in your response there.

00:24:25.280 You came to Canada in 2023, kind of in the fallout, you know, as COVID is kind of winding down.

00:24:34.540 You know, you have been quite vocal on some of those issues, including many of the authoritarian actions taken by the Trudeau Liberal government here and our provincial governments.

00:24:45.980 I'm proud to say in Alberta

00:24:48.080 we were the only place in Canada that literally

00:24:49.960 overthrew its government because of COVID

00:24:51.540 but you

00:24:53.960 had come and there was

00:24:55.540 significant controversy in the media around

00:24:58.160 it, you were pictured

00:24:59.960 in a photo with three federal

00:25:01.840 conservative MPs

00:25:03.380 it was denounced by

00:25:06.220 the liberals, by the socialist

00:25:08.200 NDP party

00:25:10.080 we've got here

00:25:10.760 by the media and then eventually even by

00:25:13.900 the conservative leader Pierre Polyev

00:25:15.960 as racist, right-wing extremist.

00:25:21.380 Now, most Canadians know very little about your party, the AFD.

00:25:26.840 They maybe know slightly more because the election just took place

00:25:29.900 and AFD made big global news, but they still know very little about it.

00:25:34.260 But the media in Canada and across the world

00:25:37.300 seem to have adopted the language used in German media

00:25:41.840 just saying far-right or far-right extremist. I butchered that one. But right-wing extremist,

00:25:53.360 racist, fascist, you know, all the traditional insults get thrown at anybody to the right of a

00:25:58.800 liberal generally. The German media uses that language to describe your party and the rest of

00:26:07.120 the media outside of Germany that know almost nothing about the AFD just said, well, if the

00:26:10.960 the german establishment media says that i guess we're going to use that language too um

00:26:19.840 what why do you think it is because i i was with maybe a few differences here and there i don't

00:26:26.080 think there's a huge difference between say the afd of today and say helmet cole's cdu of of 30

00:26:33.520 years ago there's some differences uh in some ways he was more right wing than than uh than the afd

00:26:40.240 um but you know i it it's it's not it doesn't appear to be wildly outside the mainstream of

00:26:47.440 german politics it's just that the the cdu kind of gave up its place as the main party of the right

00:26:54.080 um so you know why do you think it is the that uh the german media uh attach the right-wing

00:27:02.480 extremist and racist label to your party um i mean i think it's fairly described as a nationalist

00:27:08.560 party that term probably has less of a pejorative connotation in english than in german but yeah uh

00:27:14.480 i think it's i would describe it as a nationals party but i would say that's a good thing

00:27:18.320 um why do you think you know but you know these those harsher labels like racist fascist extremist

00:27:24.880 get attached to your party and what do you think you know you and your party can do to to shake

00:27:29.680 that um there actually isn't anything we can do to shake this um because i mean you know our program

00:27:37.600 if you read our program and you're right it is um it actually resembles the program that the

00:27:43.360 christian democrats that is the former conservative party here in germany they came in first in the

00:27:48.240 last elections um it pretty much resembles their their program um what has happened however is

00:27:55.760 there has been a traumatic shift to the left in the last decades um i mean even with the christian

00:28:02.960 democrats and angela merkel i mean she must have been the best green chancellor germany ever had

00:28:10.400 for those of you don't know germany never had a green chancellor but the angela merkel from

00:28:16.160 the christian democrats she was in fact a green chancellor she um gave up on every single principle

00:28:24.160 that the christian democrats um still held at that point right so she tore down all the the nuclear 0.73

00:28:31.760 power plants she ripped open our borders wide open and now we have the marriage for all and you know 1.00

00:28:38.480 that slippery slope now we have the self id for the transgender uh confused i want to call them 0.98

00:28:46.040 um so they can just self id so she pretty much relinquished any kind of holy uh crown they still 0.65

00:28:55.140 held in in the christian democrats so with this shift to the left you know any kind of a reasonable

00:29:04.500 policy any kind of common sense even appears to be now totally out there you know like extreme

00:29:13.780 some whatever so on top of that um the majority of um the people in in public media in germany

00:29:23.220 they are predominantly from the green and the left party so no wonder um there is no media

00:29:30.100 pluralism anymore i mean i remember when i grew up you know if you read in the newspapers they're

00:29:36.740 all covered kind of like the same story but they had different angles different perspectives

00:29:42.420 different conclusions they highlighted may have highlighted you know different aspects of it so

00:29:48.500 you had a wide variety you know uh when you read like let's say four or five different newspapers

00:29:54.980 you actually got a full picture and you could make up your own mind what might actually be

00:30:00.260 the truth nowadays you can read any newspaper you want you can read a hundred newspapers

00:30:06.180 it says the same thing in every single newspaper down to the word they don't even change the word

00:30:13.540 anymore so whatever newspaper you open you will find the very same article right um kind of like

00:30:19.620 the same thing we we've seen or even with the media in the united states or in canada during

00:30:25.780 the covet years they all repeated the same lines no one is safe until everyone is safe stay home

00:30:33.300 we have to save granny uh the mrnj mrna injections are safe and effective build back better remember

00:30:41.300 and then it was it's a threat to our democracy they were the same lines everywhere they're

00:30:47.800 literally reading from the same script so with the public media in germany it's it's by the way

00:30:54.880 it's funded by the german people um they call it um they call it a democracy um contribution right

00:31:05.680 so but we have the same thing here yeah yeah we are paying to be lied to we are paying to be

00:31:13.300 gaslighted we are paying to be manipulated and we are paying to be frowned upon stigmatized

00:31:20.700 ostracized called names that's actually what the german people are paying for because that's what 0.99

00:31:26.100 they're seeing every day in the in the public media and on on tv uh the the legacy media this

00:31:33.120 is how insane this is at this at the time but the thing is this like i said it's not only happening

00:31:39.400 in germany it's happening in every single western democracy like i said they were literally reading

00:31:45.580 from the same script and these attacks on freedom democracy and the rule of law we are seeing this

00:31:52.480 everywhere whether it's germany france italy great britain canada the united states australia

00:31:59.340 news every we are seeing it everywhere and this is really frightening because the point is this

00:32:06.060 you know had there been one or two or three states going rogue somehow you know falling off the trail

00:32:11.740 and uh betraying civil rights and fundamental rights and all of that um eventually the people

00:32:19.660 would have had the hope eventually you know the world community is going to step in and put a stop

00:32:24.300 to it but who do you think is going to bail us out no one if they're all in lockstep if they're all

00:32:30.780 doing the same thing there isn't going to be anyone coming around to bail us out this time

00:32:37.340 we are we're screwed completely so it's up to the people they need to understand what is happening

00:32:44.220 not just in their country but in every single western democracy and they need to step up and

00:32:49.660 And they need to make their voices heard and need to protest because otherwise, if they succeed and we do slip in a fully blown totalitarian regime, considering the technological means they have at their disposal nowadays, we are not talking about 70 years of Soviet Union.

00:33:09.980 We're not talking about 40 years of GDR. We will then be talking about a very, very long time if we'll be able to overcome it at any point. I don't even think that is possible. So we really need to get on this and we need to fight this already.

00:33:33.380 Well, that's very much why I wanted to speak to you was because I see Europe and Germany as very much a canary in the coal mine. 0.77

00:33:42.660 Germans, at least in large measure, I think, woke up to the danger they are facing in the election they had.

00:33:48.420 Not that it seems to have done any good because the same people will largely remain in power regardless of the election.

00:33:54.260 but uh i very much appreciate uh you joining uh joining us today uh uh frau anderson and uh

00:34:03.140 actually i've always wondered anderson is not a very german name it sounds very english you must

00:34:07.460 you must have some english roots right no it's my married name ah okay well uh thank you very much

00:34:15.300 for joining us i think it's uh been very insightful into what's taking place in germany taking place

00:34:19.300 in Germany right now and very relevant to Canadians going through their own election

00:34:25.860 as we speak. Thank you very much for joining us today. Auf Wiedersehen and bis bald.

00:34:32.100 Thank you so much for having me. I enjoyed it.

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Western Standard - March 31, 2025

Chaos after Germans vote to move right

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